Word: moralizers
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...unexpected casualties of Sept. 11 was Iran's uniformly hard-line attitude toward the "Great Satan," the United States. The atrocities gave the country's reformists a much-needed moral and political boost, convincing many the time was right to push for better relations with Washington ? despite the objections of hard-liners and ideologues...
James L. Wilson ’02 of Mather House entered Harvard planning to concentrate in Mathematics, but became enthralled with political philosophy after taking core classes in Historical Study and Moral Reasoning. Now a Social Studies Concentrator, he is also involved the Harvard Debate Council and in activism for women’s rights...
...What’s been clear is that there are universities with a particularly strong influence...and there’s no university greater than Harvard in terms of cultural status as an institution of moral teaching,” Nova said...
What comes across with striking clarity in this biography are two things: Roosevelt’s vigor and his endless supply of moral confidence. As a politician and as a private person, the man was nervy. Morris’ title refers to a comment from Henry James that fairly summed up his autocratic style of leadership as he tore through opposition—foreign and domestic—to achieve what he considered the only moral outcomes. Opposition, such as he saw at Harvard, was lazy and callow: “Those who remain on the sidelines...
...strikes to put down the last sparks of resistance by Taliban prisoners who had seized weapons and taken over the Qalai Janghi fort? The horrors of this and another fierce fight in the country's far south at Takhta Pul, near Kandahar, last week showed the risks and grim moral compromises inherent in their trade, at least when it comes to the time-honoured task of 'setting the East ablaze' by working with warlords and their irregular armies...